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I Dreamed A Dream Lyrics
[Fantine is left alone, unemployed and destitute]
[FANTINE] There was a time when men were kind When their voices were soft And their words inviting There was a time when love was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time Then it all went wrong I dreamed a dream in time gone by When hope was high And life worth living I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving Then I was young and unafraid And dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung, no wine untasted But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hope apart And they turn your dream to shame He slept a summer by my side He filled my days with endless wonder He took my childhood in his stride But he was gone when autumn came And still I dream he'll come to me That we will live the years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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06-20-2002
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06-20-2002
BTW, isn't "Les Miserables" French?
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06-21-2002
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07-04-2002
The whole musical is so damned powerful. Fantine and Eponine will fucking break your heart.
08-12-2009
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07-30-2002
also, les mis is not about the french revolution.
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07-30-2002
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08-20-2002
"He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came."
Mind you, the whole song is so fantastic it sends shivers down my spine. I am going to see a west end musical soon, :D but we think this'll be unsutible for my 8 year old sister :(. Any advice that would please an 8 year old girl, as well as the rest of the family? (don't say joseph because we've seen that already :))
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09-28-2002
...Wow, that sounded more pretentious than I would have wished... :-)
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03-09-2003
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06-18-2003
and this song rocks. a very emotional song.
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12-23-2004
The French Revolution 'ended' in about 1797, leading to the Napoleonic Wars that would end in 1815 at Waterloo. The story STARTS in 1814 for God's sake!
The story is based around the Paris Uprisings
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04-17-2005
Well this really brings me to tears.
Fantine had been a carefree teen in love with a man named Felix Tholymes. She thought it'd mean something, but then one day, he abandones her. To top it all of, she's pregnant. After she gives birth, she leaves her home to find work. On the way she drops her daughter off at the Thenardier's Inn so they may watch her, who is the only one she loves. Now she has been working at a factory, making just enough to live and send money to her dear Cosette. That is, until one day she is fired. Now she is left, unloved and destitute, outside of the factory. She sings this song, remembering when things were better for her, when people cared, and she didn't have to live in grime. Her dream is the life she had before... carefree, happy and loved. Then the "tigers" come for her. They take things away from her (her love, her daughter, her source of income) and put her to shame. Then she remembers Felix, who had made her happy than ever. Then he took her childhood... her innocence and any possibility of a simple life again, and after summer was done, left her. Yet she still wishes he'll return to her, no matter what he has done to her. She hasn't been able to weather this storm, and won't in the end. She hoped for a better life, but he had ruined it. No matter how hopeful she had been, it has all been ruined ("now life has killed the dream I dream")
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04-26-2005
Well, she never flat out says it, but it's pretty obvious from the lyrics:
"He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came."
Victor Hugo wrote the book while he was exiled from France for 20 or so years. So, yes, the book was originally in French, but the musical was written by Englishmen, I beleive. It premeired in 1985, and this year is the 20th anniversary.
"Les Miserables -isn't- about the French Revolution (at least the musical) it's about love."
Obviously, it has a lot to do about love, but you obviously can't have a musical that's just about one thing. Les Mis is primarily about the French Revution, but it's also about love, truth, right and wrong, justice, judgement, and other things.
Fantine is a very young mother, she was immature enough, by no fault of her own, to be wooed by the cheap lies and cliches of a young man just looking for a fling. She fets pregnant and he leaves her. Her life changes with the seasons. She does what she must to stay alive and must give away her child, the only thing left in her life, because it is best for Cosette.
This is Hugo's effective way of manipulating emotions to get his point across. Like most people in France at that time, Fantine lived in poverty. She is a young, single mother, however, so the audience's pity grows. We see that she is still very innocent and immature, the only thing she's ever done wrong. Everyone is that vulnerable at some point, but Fantine must pay for it with everything she holds dear. In the end, I don't think she ever grows up completely, but her enduring innocence enchants the audience.
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09-24-2005
Though I do have to say why people keep on thinking Les Miserables is about the French Revolution? And they're being so indignant and uppity about it. No, it wasn't about the French Revolution. Just look at the dates. -And yes, I have read the book and seen the musical (which I worship! does anybody know if the national tour is REALLY closing in the States?-
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10-30-2007
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08-12-2009
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02-16-2010
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02-17-2010
Could anyone clarify the last but one line, though?
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
"So different now from what it seemed"... I'm afraid I don't really get the "from what it seemed" part. Would anyone be as kind as to shed their light on this?
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06-05-2010
I'm only 14 years old, but this is how I perceive the line:
"I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."
When she sings "So different now from what it seemed" she means that when she was younger the thought world was a kind, happy place of dreams and she thought when she grew up her life would be perfect, but now that she's older the world is a much darker, sadder place than she thought, and her life is very different to what it seemed to be when she was younger.
She dreamed (or wished) that her life would be wonderful and happy when she was older, but as she grew up her life got harder.
When she finishes with "Now life has killed the dream I dreamed." She means that things didn't work out how she'd wanted them to, and instead of living her dream, her real, sad life proved to her that she would never have her dream.
I could be wrong, but that's what it means to me. Hope it kind of helped!
It's such a sad song, and a tragic ending for poor Fantine. I absolutely love the musical.
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06-15-2010
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06-29-2011
france went through more than one revolution, apart from the more famous one that everyone thinks of (bastille, marie antoinette, etc): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolution]
the unabridged version of the novel is ridiculously long but amazing and well worth plowing through to get the full backstory on the characters- fantine is in love with tholomyes and she and her girlfriends and their boyfriends are all bffs and such. then the guys decide to "go back to society" and ditch their girls. unfortunately for fantine, "she had given herself to tholomyes as to a husband, and the poor girl had his child." so she's single and preggers. she decides to give her baby girl (cosette) to an innkeeper and his wife (the thenardiers) and pay them to raise her daughter in a normal life. except she doesn't know that the thenardiers are awful and are criminals and treat cosette like shit and keep scamming fantine out of more money. anyway so fantine gets fired from her job and has to sell herself (including her hair and her teeth) in order to pay for her daughter's well-being.
that being said, this song is about the loss of youth and innocence, the loss of carefree days, the loss of faith in love, the loss of one's position in society...about being crushed by life being left alone. it's beautiful.
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04-23-2012
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